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Alex McKay
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It's not a great movie, but one of my favourite little moments of acting on film is the moment in Die Another Day where Michael Madsen, after narrowly avoiding being atomised by a doomsday weapon, casually pulls out a cigarette and lights it up in relief.

He understood the power of little moments.
Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill” made him a standout in Quentin Tarantino’s films, has died. He was 67.

This post replaces an earlier post that was deleted because it reported Madsen was 66.

apnews.com/article/mich...
Michael Madsen, 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Kill Bill' star, dies at 67
Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Kill Bill” made him a standout in Quentin Tarantino’s films, has died. He was 67.
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July 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I've just put my son to sleep by gently singing Beatles songs to him as he drifted off and words can't properly describe the feeling in my chest. ❤️
May 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
May 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Manchester Canal, painting by Stephen Bewsher (b.1964). #NorthernArt
April 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Oh, no surprises, just a ghoulish monster gloating over lgbtq rights being taken away.
April 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My newborn son is very taken with a piece of art I took from my mum's house when she died 9 years ago. It was one of her favourites.

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the corner crying my eyes out ❤️
April 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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When you find a new song to obsess over and listen to exclusively for the next 10 days
April 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.
April 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My default setting since my son was born:
April 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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I ruined the Nintendo Direct today to celebrate the Tim Gettys Farewell Tour. You're welcome.
March 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Why did we build all the stranger things kids in a lab if we aren't recasting the xmen
March 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@maffewgregg.bsky.social Pretty sure Tom King has been watching Botchamania while writing the Wonder Woman comic...
March 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
March 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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X engineers clocking in this morning
a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a room with a sign that says " warning "
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March 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Patriotism isn't being proud of your country no matter what. If the government are clearly shitting the bed it's patriotic to want them to do better. You don't have to love Britain unconditionally, it's a country not a son.
March 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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TUSK
March 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Lookalike: Nosferatu and UK defence secretary John Healey 

From the latest Private Eye, in shops now.
March 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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it's such a pain to try to commit to something (straight, bi, ace, can't be bothered) and then it changes with no warning

fuck it, i'm putting my sexuality as ADHD
February 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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May you be lucky enough to have a leader who loves his country half as much as this man loves his.
Breaking News: President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that he would step down if his country could join NATO. His remark came days after President Trump questioned his legitimacy and called him a “dictator,” echoing a Kremlin talking point. nyti.ms/3Qur4ab
February 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Saturday morning, we were heading to a nursery open day.

Instead, my partners waters broke and our son arrived in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A very early reminder that life doesn't care about your plans!
a man in a white shirt and tie is saying `` congratulations , universe . you win . ``
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February 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description
February 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Arcade Fire playing the SNL concert
February 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Spider-Man & Black Cat

(Written by @danslott.bsky.social, naturally)
February 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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If you are a straight, cis person and you feel that fucking knot in your stomach about what the administration is doing right now to trans people and trans children, you have to at the very fucking least say out loud in front of your friends and peers in real life "this is fucked up."
January 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM